Katsidis has won once in his past five bouts, scoring a third-round knockout of Michael Lozada in August of 2011. Since then, however, Katsidis has lost by unanimous and majority decision to Burns in Nov. 2011 and to Mensah.

The ninth-round knockout loss to Marquez, whom Katsidis dropped in the second round in Nov. 2010, came a month after the death of his 31-year-old brother, Stathi Katsidis, a champion jockey in Australia who suffocated on Oct. 19.